Monday, January 16, 2017

The World Mouth Harp Festival of India is a grassroots project conceived with a mission of establishing a platform for Mouth Harp players and musicians of all kinds from countries worldwide to connect, share, teach, and perform. Showcasing the versatility of this instrument through a diversity of musical genres including presentations of both traditional and contemporary styles of playing, together with providing opportunities and inspiration for creative collaborations between musicians, the continuing vision of the World Mouth Harp Festival of India is to establish popular recognition for the Mouth Harp as a contemporary musical instrument in our society today.

Unlike commercial music festivals where artists are booked as entertainment and tickets are sold to the general public to cover necessary expenses, at the conceptual core of the World Mouth Harp Festival of India is a community platform of skill-sharing and personal involvement. Everyone is invited to participate in this project, either by performing, teaching, organizing or simply attending, and each person is a contributor to the spirit of the festival in one way or another. Therefore, general admission to all concerts, workshops and presentations remain free of charge with no tickets for sale and no financial sponsors.

* (google translate) The basic tone of the play karinding of bamboo and Kawung surprising / special palm fronds. Four pirigan (basic tone) from [] who studied and developed in the Karinding Sadulur and Lingkar Sekar (Lingkung Art Karinding) Tasikmalaya. *

Interpretation of the various types of attack are now known or popular with bamboo. By following the history Edoy Ngalagena try to introduce immoral made of palm fronds / Ci (palm midrib) Kawung surprisingly, not Ci / palm tree that used to be taken for the juice of sugar manufacture. But Kawung tree species that grow in the wild and there is quite rare. In accordance with the techniques of how to separate the material and also how to make it based on the history of the attack hereditary from tone-area Ciampanan Cineam Tasikmalaya. The results of the search and the historical karinding that Edoy Ngalagena not only made of bamboo karinding but he is now trying to develop the attack made from palm fronds of wonder that is now owned by the community karinding and other regions around the outside of the West to the Kyoto- Japan. Of shape is unique because of the structure of the vibrating needle karindingnya over one finger, which is generally only one. Of course, with a special way of making even not distinguish tone or sound that is produced by the same type of karinding an